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The freedom of homeschooling options continues to become more flexible in the U.S. A high value is placed an children having an education that best fits their needs. Governments around the world don't share the same feeling. There are countries in Europe that are threatening parents who home school to fines and imprisonment. Here is an excerpt of the article. If you'd like to read the rest, please click on the link below.


"A June 11 report on home education in England by Graham Badman, former managing director of Children, Families and Education in the County of Kent, makes the case that homeschooling should be extensively regulated. More troubling, the report has been accepted in full by British Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families Ed Balls.

The underlying philosophy behind Mr. Badman’s conclusion is based upon children’s rights contained in the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, which came into force in Britain on Jan. 15, 1992. Mr. Badman contends that current homeschool law, which is very similar to many homeschool laws in America, does not address children’s education needs or protect the child from harm by the parents.

The U.N. Convention would give children more than 40 “fundamental” rights, including the right to express their views freely, the right to be heard in any legal or administrative matter that affects them, and the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas. Mr. Badman is urging that England make it possible for children to form their own views and express themselves freely in all matters affecting them, including how they are being raised and what form of education they are receiving.

Who will decide the conflict between the rights of the child and the responsibility of the parents? The child, the parents? the government?

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